Registered Nurse Resume Example

Responsible for providing care for pediatric and adult patients in Emergency room, including triage, history taking, head to toe assessments, nursing care interventions such as giving medications, peripheral intravenous placements, participating in code blue.

I was responsible for providing care for pediatric and adult patients in the Emergency room, including triage, history taking, head to toe assessments, nursing care interventions such as giving medications, peripheral intravenous placements, and participating in code blue. St. Christus hospital is the first hospital that I worked for in United States. I truly gained a lot of knowledge and skills about emergency nursing in USA at this hospital. I achieved good staff rapport and patient satisfaction as evidence by management persistently requesting me to stay after completing my contract. My manager, Ms. Taylor, verbally informed me that she was impressed with the way I performed my work. Working at a very busy hospital for almost a year with no complaints from patients is a good achievement of patient/nurse relationship.

Emergency care nursing to adult patients from triage, history, assessments, interventions procedures, education, and discharge instructions. I was skilled in performing duties like triage utilizing the critical thinking, nursing skill, and nursing process. I am able to communicate to other staff and Doctor about patients with highest priorities or needing critical or emergent care. Able to gather vital signs from patients of all age groups from infants to geriatrics and using these to assess and give appropriate care. Performed assessment of  patients from head to toe using or utilizing the 5 senses and nursing process.

I gained most of experience about overseas nursing at this hospital. The hospital serves patients from all diversity, this is where I started to learn and understand about cultural competency. I gained more insight about respecting patients beliefs at this hospitals. The manager great valued my skills and experience especially when I was working with sick children and their families. All health care providers were very sad, when they heard I was leaving for United States of America, because they said I was such  great team player. I gained a lot of experience in EKG interpretation, resuscitation, and care of critically ill patients post emergency care, when Intensive Care Unit was full. 

This job was more like a Nurse Practitioner role. I provided care minor ailments care to hotel workers, and their immediate families. I managed triage, head to toe assessments, diagnosed, and prescribed and dispensed medications. I was responsible for two sister hospitals. I was involved in first aid or as a first responder in accidents, such as drowning, within the hotel premises, facilitated transfer of patients with complicated diseases to higher level of care, and ordering medications from Pharmaceutical companies, stocking, and packing medications ready for dispensing. Maintained and protected patient information files. I inspected the hotel, especially food services, once a month and provided report of my finding to management. There are so many things I achieved working at this clinic. My achievements include insurance billing, secretarial duties, such as answering the phone, insurance billing, and management skills. The respect I provided to each and every patient, was noticed by management, so they increased my salary from $40.000 Zimbabwe dollars to $60.000 in a bid to keep me at this job.

Emergency care nursing to adult patients from triage, history, assessments, interventions [procedures], education, and discharge instructions. I am skilled in performing duties like triage utilizing the critical thinking, nursing skill, and nursing process. I am able to communicate to other staff and Doctor about patients with highest priorities or needing critical or emergent care. Able to gather vital signs from patients of all age groups from infants to geriatrics and using these to assess and give appropriate care. ASSESSMENTS - got most of my skills in patient assessment from head to toe at this hospital. Preceptor role for new nurses and  student nurses. I achieved charge nurse role at this hospital. Recognized by Matrons (House Supervisors) for the best Registered Nurse for patient report writing utilizing the nursing diagnosis and nursing care care plans. Able to perform minor procedure such as suturing using aseptic technique, and also performed clinical education and supervision to student nurses during wound assessment, suturing, suture removal, and peripheral intravenous catheter placement.

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